Throughout the Popoya Islands community

Answer choices

1. A

   No Impact3% picked this

   Twice as many Popoyans live in rural areas as live in

   The raw numbers of rural population vs. city population don't matter. The fact that more rural people exist in the country overall doesn't explain why Josie, a lottery winner in rural area X, feels compelled to throw an elaborate local feast, whereas Moses, a lottery winner city Y, feels fine just investing his money for himself.

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2. B

   No Impact1% picked this

   Popoyan city dwellers tend to buy several lottery tickets at a time, but they buy tickets less frequently

   This points to differences in terms of how rural vs. city folk tend to handle the buying of their tickets. We're interested in understanding a difference in terms of how rural vs. city folk tend to handle using any money they might win.

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3. C

   Correct91% picked this

   Lottery winners in rural areas are notified of winning by public posting of lists of winners, but notification in the

   Why this is right

   This is a distinction between rural and city, and it relates to winning the lottery. Since the answer is not an obvious one to interpret right away, it's important that we use those structural features as a reason to "work a little harder" at trying to understand this answer. We know community pressure to share your winnings exists everywhere in this country, but we were speculating that maybe it exists to a greater degree in rural areas (which effectively guilts lottery winners into spending their winnings on the community). This answer helps explain why there might be more communal pressure in rural areas. If you live in a rural area, then there is a public posting of all lists of winners. So everybody in town can find out that you won the lottery and pressure you to throw a big neighborhood party. In city areas, you find out by private mail, so you could potentially hide the fact that you won. Your community members don't have any to know, unless you suddenly start buying lavish things you never could afford before. Hence, a person in the city could win the lottery, keep it a secret, thereby eluding community pressure to share it, and invest the winnings (rather than make gaudy purchases that would potentially raise suspicions that you had suddenly come into money).

   Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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4. D

   No Impact4% picked this

   Families in rural areas in the Popoyas many contain twelve or fourteen people, but city families

   The paradox isn't about sharing with your family, it's about sharing with your community. So the difference in average family size doesn't give us any way to explain why in rural areas you're more often pressured into sharing with the whole neighborhood, whereas in city areas you can more often get away with keeping the money for your own investments.

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5. E

   No Impact1% picked this

   Twice as many lottery tickets are sold in rural areas as are sold

   This is another answer about a difference in terms of ticket buying. We're interested in understanding a difference in terms of how rural vs. city folk tend to handle using any money they might win.

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